{"id":571214,"date":"2026-04-08T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:57:10","slug":"benches-clear-after-brawl-breaks-out-between-braves-pitcher-angels-batter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571214\/","title":{"rendered":"Benches clear after brawl breaks out between Braves pitcher, Angels batter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The benches cleared in Los Angeles on Tuesday night after a fight broke out during the Atlanta Braves and LA Angels game.<\/p>\n<p>Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez and Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler were ejected from the game after fists started flying. The two are former teammates, both playing for the Braves during the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Soler charged the mound during the bottom of the fifth inning after L\u00f3pez threw a pitch that tipped off catcher Jonah Heim\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez initially held his hands up before both started throwing punches.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when dozens of players from both teams ran to the mound trying to separate the two.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta manager Walt Weiss was among those who tackled Soler.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez was holding the baseball when he landed a punch on Soler\u2019s batting helmet.<\/p>\n<p>Soler had homered off L\u00f3pez in his first at-bat, then was hit by a pitch in his second.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves won the game 7-2.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The benches cleared in Los Angeles on Tuesday night after a fight broke out during the Atlanta Braves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[42124,2111,158640,251752,3031,363,136689,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-571214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-jonah-heim","11":"tag-jorge-soler","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}